English Bible words starting with A
865 meanings beginning with A, in alphabetical order. This is page 9 of 9. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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attach2 words
attack5 words
- nakhahנָכָהto deliver a blow: to strike someone or something, whether a single hit, a fatal stroke, a battlefield rout, or an affliction sent from God
- nagaḥנָגַחto strike and drive with the horns: to gore an animal or a person, and so to charge an opponent and force them back
- satanשָׂטַןto stand against someone as their adversary, whether by open hostility or by bringing a charge against them
- katephistēmiκατεφίστημιto attacknot studied yet
- sunephistēmiσυνεφίστημιto attacknot studied yet
Attai1 word
attain5 words
- katalambanōκαταλαμβάνωto lay hold of and make your own: to reach and seize a goal you have been chasing.
+3 more meanings
- to overtake and seize by force: to catch up with someone or something and take hold of it, often as an enemy or a disaster does.
- to grasp with the mind: to come to realize, perceive, or understand something.
- to catch someone in the act, especially of wrongdoing.
- nasagנָשַׂגto overtake or reach something that was ahead of or beyond you: to close the gap and arrive at it
- phthanōφθάνωto get all the way there: to reach a place, a person, or a goal, arriving rather than merely drawing close.
- katantaōκαταντάωto arrive at an endpoint: to reach a place, or to reach a goal or condition one has been moving toward
- katatithēmiκατατίθημιto attainnot studied yet
- katalambanōκαταλαμβάνωto lay hold of and make your own: to reach and seize a goal you have been chasing.
Attalia1 word
attempt1 word
attend2 words
attendant3 words
- na'arנַעַרa boy, youth, or young man; also a personal attendant or servant, often of junior standing
- hupēretēsὑπηρέτηςan authorized subordinate who carries out a higher authority's orders: an officer, attendant, or commissioned agent within a chain of command
- sakhanסָכַןan attendant: a person kept close to a superior to look after him personally
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- to be of benefit: to be worth something to the one who stands to gain
- to be long familiar with: to know something by living with it rather than by hearing of it
attentive1 word
attentiveness1 word
attire2 words
attitude1 word
Augustan1 word
Augustus1 word
aunt1 word
author1 word
authority7 words
- onomaὄνομαa name: the word by which a person, place, or thing is identified, which in the New Testament regularly stands for the person's whole self, their authority, and their publicly known standing.
- exousiaἐξουσίαrightful authority: the freedom or power to act that has been granted, so the action is legitimate and cannot rightly be challenged
- epitagēἐπιταγήan order given by someone with the standing to be obeyed: a charge that binds rather than advises
- sholtanשׇׁלְטָןsovereign power to rule: the authority a king or God holds over a realm and its people.
- huperochēὑπεροχήauthoritynot studied yet
autumn1 word
autumn rain1 word
autumnal1 word
avail3 words
Aven1 word
avenge3 words
- ekdikeōἐκδικέωto see justice done: to carry out what a wrong requires, whether by securing the wronged party's rights or by exacting the penalty from the wrongdoer
- naqamנָקַםto avenge: to set a wrong right by punishing the wrongdoer, as a rightful authority and not as a private grudge
- naqamנָקָםvengeance: punishment inflicted in return for a wrong, by one who has the standing to inflict it
avenger1 word
avenging3 words
Avith1 word
avoid3 words
Avvim1 word
await5 words
- qavahקָוָהto wait, to hope, to look expectantly for someone or something: a tense, leaning-forward expectation, most often directed toward God.
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- to be gathered together, to collect into one place: said of waters drawn together, and of peoples drawn together to a center.
- anamenōἀναμένωto awaitnot studied yet
- apekdechomaiἀπεκδέχομαιto wait for something eagerly: to keep looking for what has been promised and is certain to come, but is not here yet
- savarשָׂבַרto look expectantly for what has not yet come: to fix your hope on it, whether or not it arrives
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- to look something over closely: to go along examining what condition it is in
- perimenōπεριμένωto awaitnot studied yet
- qavahקָוָהto wait, to hope, to look expectantly for someone or something: a tense, leaning-forward expectation, most often directed toward God.
awake5 words
- urעוּרto wake or rouse: to bring something from rest, sleep, or stillness into alertness and action, or to come awake oneself
- qutsקִיץto wake up: to pass from sleep into wakefulness, or to rouse oneself to act
- yaqatsיָקַץto wake up: to come out of sleep, a dream, or a drunken haze into full awareness
- exupnizōἐξυπνίζωto awakenot studied yet
- exupnosἔξυπνοςawakenot studied yet
awaken1 word
awareness1 word
- suneidēsisσυνείδησιςconsciousness: an inner awareness of something about oneself or one's situation, such as food's link to idols, the presence of God, or lingering sin, short of a full moral verdict
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- conscience: the inner sense by which a person judges their own conduct as right or wrong and bears witness for or against themselves
- suneidēsisσυνείδησιςconsciousness: an inner awareness of something about oneself or one's situation, such as food's link to idols, the presence of God, or lingering sin, short of a full moral verdict
away5 words
- exapostellōἐξαποστέλλωto send someone or something out and away: to dispatch a person or a message off to somewhere else.
- adahעֲדָהto go from where it was: for rule, honor, or a binding order to pass away, or for someone with power to take it away
- exelkōἐξέλκωto drag out/awaynot studied yet
- exeimiἔξειμιto go out/awaynot studied yet
- ekpleōἐκπλέωto sail out/awaynot studied yet
away from1 word
awe3 words
- phobosφόβοςfear: the alarm or dread that grips a person in the face of danger, the supernatural, or overwhelming power
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- reverence: the respect and submission owed to God, and the deference owed to people in authority
- a cause of fear: a person or thing that makes others afraid, a threat or terror
- yirahיִרְאָהfear: from raw dread of danger, through awe before the holy, to the reverent devotion to God that the Old Testament calls the beginning of wisdom.
- thambosθάμβοςstunned awe: the wonder mixed with fear that seizes people who have just seen overwhelming power at work
- phobosφόβοςfear: the alarm or dread that grips a person in the face of danger, the supernatural, or overwhelming power
awesome2 words
- yareיָרֵאto be awesome, dreadful, or terrifying, said of the person, place, or act that inspires awe rather than the person who feels it.
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- to be afraid, to feel fear in the face of danger or threat.
- to revere, to hold in awe; the posture of loyal devotion toward God or toward a legitimate authority.
- deḥalדְּחַלto fear: to hold a standing dread of someone powerful, and (of a thing) to be dreadful to look at
- yareיָרֵאto be awesome, dreadful, or terrifying, said of the person, place, or act that inspires awe rather than the person who feels it.
awesome deeds1 word
awl1 word
awoke1 word
axe7 words
- axinēἀξίνηaxenot studied yet
- qardomקַרְדֹּםaxenot studied yet
- garzenגַּרְזֶןaxenot studied yet
- ma'atsadמַעֲצָדaxenot studied yet
- kelaphכֵּילַפּוֹתaxenot studied yet
axes1 word
axle1 word
- serenסֶרֶןan axle: a part of the wheel assembly of Solomon's movable bronze temple stands
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- a lord of the Philistines: one of the five rulers who governed the Philistine city-states
- serenסֶרֶןan axle: a part of the wheel assembly of Solomon's movable bronze temple stands
Azaliah1 word
Azaniah1 word
Azarel1 word
Azariah2 words
Azaz1 word
azazel1 word
Azaziah1 word
Azbuk1 word
Azekah1 word
Azel1 word
Azgad1 word
Aziel1 word
Aziza1 word
Azmaveth1 word
Azmon1 word
Aznoth-tabor1 word
Azor1 word
Azotus1 word
Azriel1 word
Azrikam1 word
Azubah1 word
Azzan1 word
Azzur1 word